Sharpes Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (The Sharpe Series, Book 10)
English
By (author): Bernard Cornwell
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Portugal, 1811
Captain Richard Sharpes renegade ways leave him discarded by his regiment and waging a war against a private Portuguese enemy one fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra.
Forced to retreat across treacherous terrain, the British army prepare vast defences at the Lines of Torres Vedras their greatest secret and their last hope of stopping the French reaching Lisbon. And risking everything to re-join his regiment, and lead the army into battle once more, is Sharpe . . .
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